Well, if you are, they’re laughing at you. All the way to the bank.
The photo above is a can of soup my friend Reed was served on a train from Beijing to Shanghai last week. Sort of reminds me of the Tom Bihn bag scandal a few years ago.
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on April 29, 2008 at 11:06 pm kip wrote:
Hey, there’s no picture of a cat in this post! WTF???
on April 30, 2008 at 1:25 am AUNT MARSHA wrote:
WTF, INDEED!
I am awaiting Fish’s eventual personal blog.
I know it’s coming.
on April 30, 2008 at 7:31 am Scott B wrote:
See that little dot in the bottom right corner? Its acctually an micro-fish picture!
I knew Doug wouldn’t let us down.
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any injuries incurred trying to look for said dot. =)
on April 30, 2008 at 8:28 am Doug wrote:
As Marsha has discovered, Megan has the best Fish pics this week: http://alberni.textdrive.com/~ikofish/?p=172
on April 30, 2008 at 8:57 am tvp wrote:
Uh-oh. Prepare for hits on your blog page cuz I’m spreadin’ this one!
on April 30, 2008 at 9:56 pm tvp wrote:
Check it out:
http://www.islandfoodie.com/jobs tears.htm
I guess the lesson is: Google before you jump on the Chinese.
(Who woulda thunk that “Job’s Tears” is a real food ingredient!)
on May 1, 2008 at 5:33 am Doug wrote:
Man, that really takes the fun out of it. I’m so over being jealous of that souvenir soup can.
“Foreign” still seems a bit odd. Meaning “Korean” perhaps? Or can we hold out hope that it’s a jab at US attitudes about globalization?
on May 1, 2008 at 9:34 am Tom wrote:
Dunno — I think it’s innocent. I got the impression from a conversation with a friend from China that Chinese workers have far less interest in arguing about jobs with Americans as Americans have in arguing with them. Like White Sox fans and Cubs fans — White Sox fans hate the Cubs, and Cubs fans have no opinion about the White Sox (which is just all the more infuriating to the Sox fans).
Sorry — this time of year EVERYTHING comes back to a baseball analogy sooner or later.
on May 1, 2008 at 12:11 pm tvp wrote:
At least I’d never heard of the Tom Binh thing, and at least they clearly didn’t mean their own CEO. I mean, am I supposed to think they *vote* for their own CEO?
I don’t think so!!
on May 1, 2008 at 12:59 pm Doug wrote:
The Tom Bihn thing was great. I actually bought one of the bags in 2004, when they were promoting them on the home page before the election. But now it doesn’t look like they’re selling them, or they’re pretty well hidden on the site.
on May 1, 2008 at 9:54 pm Megan wrote:
Tad’s link isn’t working for me… but I assume that’s Job’s tears as in Job from the Bible (who had reasons enough to cry, certainly)–not jobs lost to China???
on May 2, 2008 at 3:39 am tvp wrote:
Exactly so, Megan. It’s some corn-like asian vegetable that gets ground into powder and put into soup for the taste it gives the broth.
on May 5, 2008 at 5:58 am AUNT MARSHA wrote:
Yet, unlike the current day workers and their tears, Job had not only his faith and riches restored, but his tears wiped dry by the losses being doubled in their return.
Didn’t know you knew bible stuff, Meggie. Huh. What is the landscaping like that Gran said you were doing? Doug—you’re in on that?